Ries, just 32, is a veteran tech entrepreneur who recognized parallels between Toyota's lean production system and the continuous innovation ethos he believes small companies must master.
It's also about bringing important lessons of persecution to the present and recognizing parallels.
The Irish poet has asserted a significant influence on Thumboo, as Thumboo recognizes parallels between Ireland's nationalistic struggle and Singapore's breakaway from colonialism.
And while Speckhardt doesn't think the senator is being untruthful about his belief in God, he says many atheists have recognized parallels in the way Sanders discusses it.
Baseball diehards will recognize the parallels to sabermetrics and Billy Beane's "moneyball".
I hope every reader of this article, every journalist, every student of women's history, will meet the woman who lives in the book's pages and recognize the parallels today.
Readers will probably recognize some parallels to the controversy over the name of the American football team in Washington, but the history of the Spurs is a little more complicated, a lot weirder, and certainly more English.
Americans will certainly recognize strong parallels between Iceland's current situation and their own.
I had to recognize our parallels and, more importantly, understand our differences and see them as issues for me to care about too.
There was their intellectual failure to recognize two parallel truths: That the Muslim Brotherhood was intolerant and authoritarian, but that cheering its liquidation by the police and the army would bring Egypt no closer to freedom and pluralism.
